The boss that everyone loves to hate, The Simpsons' Mr Charles Montgomery Burns is a metaphor for everything that's wrong, not just with business but with the whole capitalist system itself. His business is, of course, producing nuclear energy ... the dirtiest industry imaginable and one which could wreak unimaginable damage on the world should it fall into the wrong hands. There are, of course, no hands worse than those of Burns himself, a senile, demented wretch with barely a scrap of humanity left in his diseased-wracked body (he lost his soul more than a century earlier when he went to live with his grandfather, a former slave trader. It says something dark about Simpsons creator Matt Groening that Burns is his favourite character to write for.